We use the 2002 through 2014 Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to construct comparable measures of household …

middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to …, Vietnam, and Tanzania). Overall, the economic, social, and institutional constraints that shape women's labor force …

Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few … extensive province-level data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSSs) for every alternate year between 2002 … suggest that policy makers in Vietnam should focus on reducing spatial disparities and income inequality in order to attain …

This paper examines the impact of an export market expansion created by the US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA …) on competition among manufacturing firms in Vietnam's local labor markets. Using a nonparametric production function …

Vietnam's gains in poverty reduction were striking during the period from 1992-93 to 1997-98; given the small rise in … inequality, it is evident that the country's impressive growth in the 1990s was broad-based. However, Vietnam cannot afford to be … exogenous shocks. Moreover, poverty rates among its ethnic minorities remain very high. Vietnam's export-led growth and healty …